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A history of brewing in Holland, 900-1900 : economy, technology, and the state /

"This book offers a comprehensive history of brewing in Holland from the beginnings of large scale production at the end of the first millennium through medieval expansion, the boom of the Renaissance, and the disastrous decline of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It closes with the re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Unger, Richard W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction
  • Holland and Beer; Chapter One
  • Brewing in the Early Middle Ages; Chapter Two
  • The Medieval Transformation; Chapter Three
  • The Scale of the Industry in its Golden Age, 1450-1650; Chapter Four
  • Technology, Raw Materials, and the Seasons of Brewing; Chapter Five
  • Taxes, Profits, and Women's Work; Chapter Six
  • Investment, Concentration, and Protection; Chapter Seven
  • Guilds before 1620; Chapter Eight
  • The Data of Decline, 1600-1800.